Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Biblioasisis an
independent literary press based in Southwest, Ontario. It published about 12
titles per year of poetry, fiction and nonfiction in beautifully crafted
editions. See their submission guidelines here.

This
year, Biblioasis author Anakan Schofield won the Amazon First Novel Award for Malarky.Here’s the media release…

TORONTO,April
24, 2013/CNW/
- This evening, Amazon.ca presented the 2012Amazon.ca First Novel Awardand a cheque for$7,500to Anakana Schofield, author ofMalarky(Biblioasis), at a ceremony
hosted by award-winning broadcaster, writer, musician, producer and
best-selling author, Jian Ghomeshi, at The Four Seasons inToronto.
Schofield was selected to receive the award from a shortlist of five authors,
all of whom had their first novels published in 2012.

Anakana Schofield is an
Irish-Canadian writer of fiction, essays and literary criticism. Her
first novel,Malarky,is the story of an Irish mother
forced to look grief in the eye and of a wife who comes face-to-face with the
mad agony of longing. Anakana Schofield has also contributed to theLondonReview
of Books,TheGlobe and MailandTheVancouverSun. She has lived inLondonand Dublin and now resides inVancouver.

Anakana Schofield lives in Vancouver

Along with Schofield, the 2012
Amazon.ca First Novel Award finalists are Marjorie Celona forY(Hamish
Hamilton, Canada),Scott
FotheringhamforThe Rest Is Silence(Goose
Lane Editions), Pasha Malla forPeople
Park(House
of Anansi Press), and Kim Thúy forRu(Random
House Canada). Each finalist took home a$750gift card to Amazon.ca.

Brian
Henry will lead a "How
to Get Published”workshop on Saturday, May 4, in Barrie, with
guest literary agent Olga Filina of The Rights Factory (see here).

Also,
Brian will host“From the Horse’s Mouth: Getting
published or self-published” at Ryerson University on June
15 with Stacey
Donaghy of the Corvisiero
Literary Agency, Greg Ioannou of Iguana Books, and Patrick Crean
of HarperCollins Canada (details here).

However,
before you submit, though, the best way to get your manuscript into shape is
with a weekly course. This summer, Brian will be leadingIntensive Creative Writingcourses on Tuesday afternoons in
Burlington (details here)
and on Thursday evenings in Mississauga (details here).

Brian Henry has been a book editor, writer, and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He teaches creative writing at Ryerson University. He also leads weekly creative writing courses in Burlington, Mississauga, Oakville and Georgetown and conducts Saturday workshops throughout Ontario. His proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get published.